Bugs on Flowers, Trees, and Shrubs

Solution

Control What's Bugging Your Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees

Your landscaping looks beautiful. To many bugs, it looks like lunch. All sorts of bugs stop
by to feast on your trees, shrubs, and flowers. Some fly, some crawl, and some dig around
underground. Not all of them are harmful. Ladybugs, for instance, gobble up pest bugs. Don't
try to eradicate all of your pests, since you never will. You can control them effectively and
easily with contact or systemic bug controls.

Prevention and Maintenance

Learn About Your Bugs

You have your flying bugs, your crawling bugs, your stayintheground bugs.
Not all are bad. Ladybugs, and praying mantises eat the bugs that eat your plants. Bumble bees
help your flowers and trees pollinate. They also attract birds, which eat all sorts of bugs,
too. Be careful to keep the good guys in your garden while you control the pests.

Bug Controls

There are two types of products used for controlling insects in landscaping. Systemic bug
controls are absorbed by the plant and kill insects when they feed. Contact bug controls stick
to the surface of the plant and kill bugs when they touch it. That's how products such as
Ortho® Flower, Fruit & Vegetable Insect Killer Ready-To-Use work on over 100 types of bugs.

Control Tough Bugs when They Sleep

Scale bugs form a tough coating around themselves when they feed. This helps protect them
from many bug controls. You can control them in the late winter or early spring by spraying a
coating on your plants, such as
Ortho® Volck® Oil Spray.

Bugs Defined

Any creepy crawly thing with six legs is an insect. They share similar life stages, going
from egg to larva to adult. Of course, from your point of view, spiders are bugs, too, even
though they're not insects, but arachnids.